All Quotes by Kahlil Gibran
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
“You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.”
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,”
“Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”
“The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;”
“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?”
“When love beckons to you, follow him,”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions.”
“Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom.”
“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”
“Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”
“Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”
“You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all.”
“I came here to be for all and with all,”
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”
“The two lovers walked among the willow trees, and the oneness of each was a language speaking of the oneness of both; and an ear listening in silence to the inspiration of love; and a seeing eye seeing the glory of happiness. "Astarte has brought back our souls to this life so that the delights of love and the glory of youth might not be forbidden us, my beloved.”
“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
“The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.”
“Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.”
“You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.”
“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.”
“The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;”
“Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.”
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...”
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”